In this video, I want to show you how to make a double-needle topstitch.…It's the kind of stitch you might want to use if you were drawing jeans.…You can also use it for the hem of the t-shirt.…Now you may be wondering why I already know how to make a single stitch?…I can just duplicate the path.…That's true you can, but here is why it works out better to do it with a brush.…If I copy and paste in front and move this over, I can move this down so I get…my path evened out, but look at how the stitches align. Actually they don't.…But look at how perfectly aligned these are because I did these with a …double-needle topstitch brush. So let me show you how to make one.…

It's always a good idea to have a garment, a flat.…If you haven't drawn the flat yet at least the template open before you make a…brush so you can make it to the right scale and proportion.…It's a real pain to click on a brush and then have to scale it every time.…So I keep all my brushes scaled correctly to my flat templates.…We're going to use a tool I haven't shown you before.…

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4/3/2013

Learn to draw detailed technical flats for the fashion industry using Adobe Illustrator. In this course, author Robin Schneider teaches you how to master the Pen tool, using a simplified approach so you can put your energy into designing. She walks you through drawing shirts, pants, skirts, and blazers and shows you how to maximize the power of Illustrator with Pathfinder, custom brushes and symbols, and layers for quick and easy editing. Robin also shows you how to draw and render croquis (live models) complete with facial features and hair.

Topics include:

What is a flat?

Scaling, rotating, and duplicating shapes

Simplifying and mastering the Pen tool to get you up and running quickly